06/11/2023 updated

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SAP PO LEAD DESIGNER, SAP PO DEVELOPER, LEAD DEVELOPER

South Africa
Only remote
BE - Electronics and communication engineering
South Africa
Only remote
BE - Electronics and communication engineering

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CV - Sonalisa Karunakaran

HTMLJava (Programming Language)JavaScriptASC X12 StandardsApplication Integration ArchitectureApplication Performance ManagementApplication TestingUnit TestingBusiness SystemsSerializationDisaster RecoveryMiddlewareJava Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE)Sync (Unix)GroovySAP IDocIT ManagementJava Database ConnectivityJava Message Service (JMS)SAP ERPOracle NetSuiteSAP SuccessFactorsSAP ABAPSAP ApplicationsSAP ImplementationSAP Web Application ServerSAP PI/POSAP PSSimple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)Web ServicesExtensible Markup Language (XML)Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)BoomiBackendIntegration TestsLegacy Systems
ANSI X12, ABAP, application integration, Application Performance Management, application test, backend, Boomi, Business Systems, Disaster Recovery, XML, XSLT, Groovy, HTML, IDOC, IDOCs, IT management, integration tests, Java, JDBC, JMS, J2EE, Java script, legacy systems, middleware, NetSuite, SAP, SAP ECC, SAP implementation, SAP Web, SAP PI, SAP systems, Serialization, SOAP, SuccessFactors, Sync, unit test, WebServices

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2023

Languages

EnglishNative speaker

Project history

SAP PO LEAD DESIGNER

EOH
Working as a SAP PO/CPI Technical Design architect and designed and implemented more than 100
interfaces successfully.
Contribution:
* Created implementation project plan
* Estimated and planned all work effort relating to SAP PO activities and Technical architecture
components.
* Involved in the Scoping, documentation, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of
warehouse management (end to end) interfaces.
* Documented all the interfaces and integration process and created detailed design and technical
design documents for all existing active interfaces.

SAP PO DEVELOPER

ESKOM
Worked as a contractor in ESKOM in developing interfaces for Enterprise Interface Platform project
on release 2 and 3.
Contribution:

* IDoc to XML interface from SAP ECC to 3rd party WMS involving complex field and value mapping.
* Involved in the Scoping, documentation, design, development , implementation and maintenance of
warehouse management (end to end) interfaces -
* Documented all the interfaces and integration process and created detailed design and technical
design documents for all existing active interfaces.

LEAD DEVELOPER

STANDARD BANK
Co-ordinated the SAP PI development of the biggest business release of the bank in moving the
existing services from CRM5 backend to CRM7 and creating new services for the functionalities
introduced as part the release.
Contribution:

* Leading and working closely with the onsite and offshore team and took complete ownership for the
deliverables.
* Working with functional and business teams to gather business user requirements and drive
functional and technical designs
* Defining enterprise architecture requirements/design and support technical architecture design
decisions
* Defining and proposing solutions options along with effort estimations to deploy SAP PI; ensure
that scope of solution is manageable
* Interfacing with all stakeholders including senior managers and c-level executives to capture
business requirements; support a wide range of business groups including Finance, Sales and Third
party
* Effectively communicating project expectations to all team members and stakeholders including
business representatives, partners, customers, and consultants.
* Project management, Team lead, independently coached, mentored, and motivated my team members.
* Generated sound solutions to meet customer's requirements.

LEAD DEVELOPER

STANDARD BANK
Environment Re-Purposing Project - The objective of the project is to re - purpose the
non-production environments.
Contribution:

* Leading and working closely with the onsite and offshore team and took complete ownership for the
deliverables.
* Rendering advice to senior IT management on SAP PI best business practices and get the buy-in to
adopt these practices
* Creating solution road map, integrating multiple disparate processes, and addressing short and
long term organizational needs
* Research complex application integration issues with functional teams; examine integration
between various systems (SAP and non-SAP) for inconsistencies, review transformation logic and
propose corrective alternatives
* Lead teams to deliver projects on time and on budget with a high degree of quality
* Work with your own team (systems analysts, developers etc) and cross-functional project team
compositions to accomplish PI development, testing and deployments
* Leading creation of detailed solution documentation and presentations
* Leveraging standard processes and architecting innovative solutions for timely execution of the
project within the agreed time lines and the cost
* Day-to-day maintenance of production application systems
* Participating in Disaster Recovery testing to help ensure business continuance
* Assist in hiring, motivating, evaluating, developing group/department personnel
* Provide coaching and mentoring to team members

TECHNICAL LEAD

STANDARD BANK
Test environment support for four business releases which involved migrating the data from legacy
systems to SAP banking services. SAP PI 7.1 is the middleware used along with IBM ESB products to
connect various non - SAP front end systems to SAP system.
Contribution:

* Leading Business release Project journey from onsite
* Solving Online Incidents when raised.
* Monitoring Batch jobs and fixing Batch Abends.
* Preparing Weekly, Daily and Monthly Status Report.
* Review functional requirements and develop corresponding technical specifications
* Perform Implementations using PO/PI tools such as WebServices (SOAP), XML, XSLT, HTML, Flat
File, and JMS.
* Convert ANSI X12 to EDI documents to XML using various translators within SAP PO/PI.
* Develop and deploy technical objects as per the design.
* Prepare mapping specifications and creates maps based upon customers' requirements.
* Performs unit and integration tests to verify accuracy of all new PI/EDI functionality.
* Monitors daily transactions and processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of all
related functionality

PI DEVELOPER

CONVERGYS
Production support for SAP PI 7.1 application which integrated with bank's various SAP banking
applications.
Contribution:

* Work with customers to refine requirements and document technical designs
* Develop SAP-PI interfaces in compliance with governance guidelines and development standards
* Test interfaces using SAP-PI and external test simulation tools
* Support customer application test cycles
* Configuration/implementation/support of IDOC, RFC, File, JDBC, SOAP, WS, JMS and Proxy adapter
types. Responsible for working with ABAP team to write ABAP codes for ABAP proxies during end
to end interface development to achieve desired functionality

SUPPORT ANALYST

LLYODS BANK
Production support for SAP PI 7.1 application which integrated with bank's various SAP banking
applications.
Contribution:

* Primary point of contact for SAP Integrations strategy, architecture, and governance of
Interfaces. Configuration and Administration of the PI Components (SAP Web AS ABAP/Java,
Integration Engine, Adapter Engine, SLD etc).
* Lead role in maintaining and enforcing PI naming, coding and development standards, and
providing architecture and design consulting for PI interface development.
* Perform Production Steady State Support across projects for Integrations.
* End to End (E2E) Monitoring setup for ABAP and JAVA systems
* Application Performance Management
* Define strategy for enhancing interface development processes and process.
* Contribute to process improvements for PI interface maintenance and Production support.
* Contribute to defining and enhancing interface development processes.
* Contribute to process improvements for PI interface maintenance and Production support.
* Develop and maintain policies, standards and best practices for all Interface matters related
to SAP Architecture.
* Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills on highly complex Interface
problems
* Experience directing and managing work through matrix and shared service organization
* Experience researching SAP issues through OSS evaluating OSS Notes as it relate to Interfaces.
* Ability to clearly communicate technology issues, plans and solutions from both a business
perspective and a technical perspective providing pros and cons for recommended solutions.

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